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John Barth, the innovative postmodernist novelist known for his darkly comic and complicated novels, has passed away at the age of 93. His works, including "Giles Goat-Boy" and "The Sot-Weed Factor," challenged traditional literary standards and advocated for new approaches to literature. Barth, a writer's writer, was an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University and continued to write and publish into the 21st century.
John Barth, the influential American postmodernist novelist known for his darkly comic and innovative but complicated novels, has died at the age of 93. His works, including Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, challenged literary standards and advocated for new approaches to literature. Barth, a writer's writer, explored the relationship between storyteller and audience in his parodies and satire, drawing inspiration from The Thousand and One Nights. Throughout his career, he taught creative writing and received critical acclaim for his novels and short story collections.
John Barth, a pioneering writer known for pushing the limits of storytelling with imaginative and intricately woven novels like "The Sot-Weed Factor" and "Giles Goat-Boy," has passed away at the age of 93. As a practitioner and theoretician of postmodern literature, Barth's work drew comparisons to contemporaries like Thomas Pynchon, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov. His critical essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" continues to be cited as the manifesto of postmodernism, sparking decades of debate over the exhaustion of old conventions of literary narrative.